The Display Manager is the application interface that displays and allows you to interact with the pages of your VTS application. The role of the Display Manager is to provide you with a series of tools that allow you to perform functions such as viewing and navigating among pages, rapidly accessing the Alarm page, and printing your pages.
The Display Manager is made up of 3 parts: the title bar, the page display area, and the navigation bar.
• The title bar identifies the page you are viewing, allows you to logon to your user account, notifies you of alarm conditions, allows you to respond to alarm conditions by switching to the Alarm page, and enables you to print your pages.
• The page display area is the canvas upon which the pages of your application are viewed.
• The navigation bar provides you with the easy-to-use menu, page change buttons and page history buttons that allow you to switch among your pages.
The Display Manager allows for easy navigation among the pages making up your application by means of a menu, and page change and page history buttons situated on the navigation bar. Hotboxes that open associated pages, control panels, or dialogs might also have been configured in your application.
The Display Manager's title bar identifies each page by name, however, regardless of the page being displayed, remaining tools of the Display Manager's title bar and navigation bar remain the same.
Some of the pages in your application are:
• Application pages that have been customized to allow you to interact with equipment via graphical representations of the physical equipment that makes up your system (i.e. bitmaps of equipment, buttons, lists, dialogs, etc.).
• The Historical Data Viewer page containing linear representations (graphs) of tag input and output data, trends over time, performance and possible relationships between events (see The Historical Data Viewer Page).
• The Alarm page that notifies you of certain conditions or events within your physical equipment (see The Alarm Page and Alarms).
• The Reports page enables you to generate reports on the data collected for your physical equipment (see The Reports Page).